#these are from around 2007!

[carmenpeach]

just found my old super secret romance sketchbook from like 5th grade and i remember having nightmares over my parents finding it and like burning it or killing me or sending me away and now its so incredibly tame just furries kissing or holding hands. and i was convinced i would be arrested over it

:)

[styxxsyringe]

TRIXIETRAXX 200X 🎧☠️💙

[therealcallmekd]

Now THAT'S Thinkin' In 3D!

HHEHEHEE HAH FLATLAND FANART BE UPON YE

[saintaviator]

concepting an older Patty design..

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Someone in the house hates cats...

[swearingcactus]

ever since i heard this audio i always thought it'd fit rogue and lil v so here's to all the mom rogue enjoyers. a sequel of sorts to [this post]

[moongothic]

People often bring up the omake No Respect Time to use as Crocodad Propaganda, and y'know, I think there might be just a smidge more the omake can provide to Crocodad than what people have already discussed in the past

Like everyone's seen the comparisons between Crocodile and the anime screencaps of Don Luffyone, we all know how the two look so similar etc etc. But honestly, the resemblance is even more obvious (and hilarious) when you look at the OG manga version (Sidenote but Don Luffyone is the only one who smokes cigars in the omake... Everyone else has plain ol' cigarettes... That sure was a decision there Oda)

And yeah, you might be thinking I picked this mangacap of Crocodile in particular because the resemblance is the most obvious here and I have My Crocodad Agenda to push etc etc. But I will have you know that the original omake was from Log Book 5, which was published February 28th 2006. Meanwhile that Crocodile is from the cover of chapter 398, published February 6th 2006. So these were drawn by Oda around the same time. I didn't just cherry pick this cover page because it's convenient for my evil agenda, if these were drawn around the same time then the likelihood the resemblance is intentional does legitimately go up a little. (Also since they're both drawn by Oda instead of random animators, again, it's a bit less coincidental and could be a bit more intentional)

But as I said, I think there might be more to the omake than that.

In the past people have also pointed out and joked how a mere few months before Oda revealed Dragon was Luffy's father to us in the story (post-Enies Lobby), in the Monster Time-omake Luffy was depicted as a dragon.

Needless to say, people believe this was intentional foreshadowing (/trolling) to the Dragon reveal by Oda-- if not it'd be one hell of a coincidence at the very least.

The reason I'm bringing that up is that if people think it's safe to assume Oda was hinting at Luffy's heritage in one omake by making him a dragon like his father, then why couldn't Oda do the same in another omake (by making Luffy a mafia boss who smokes cigars like his father)? Keep in mind that Monster Time was published in May 2006 (in Log Book 7), just three months after No Respect Time. So again, these are from the same era. To me, that just makes the resemblance between Don Luffyone and Crocodile seem even less coincidental

Oh, but there's one more omake I want to bring up.

So people do often bring up Nerd!Luffy's appearance in One Piece Gakuen spin-off manga, pointing out how much he looks quite a lot like the Theoretical Child Oda gave to Crocodile in that one SBS. Yeah. So. 'Bout that.

There was this one omake called Red Hair of Class 3-Sea Time, in which Luffy was a loser ass nerd. And man, that resemblance

Like it's one thing when a spin-off manga drawn by a different artist does A Thing. It's another when Oda himself does it

[dennisboobs]

glenn + the crashtones.

(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

[cillianistic]

・Cillian Murphy in grey・

(Not sure of the source, looks like a magazine photoshoot/outtake)

[batsplat]

a valentino-centered question—setting aside the track rivalries and drama, who do you think valentino actually likes the most among the other aliens? based on their personalities, or just the vibe when they’re together—

nyhh unfortunately there's an easy answer here, which makes it kinda boring. but it's also unambiguously correct - it's dani. I guess this kind of depends on what you mean 'like' and... if it's even possible to separate that out from on-track rivalries... I'm very much a sports supremacist in that I believe the interpersonal relationship is always first and foremost determined by competitive circumstance. it's not the ONLY factor and I suppose we could imagine a theoretical world in which they were all like... idk, bakers... but, well, they're not

decided to kill ten minutes of my life I'm never getting back by providing a rough chart of how valentino's feelings towards each of the aliens developed over time

[hopefully you should be able to figure this out without a key, but if not: dani - orange; casey - lilac (?); jorge - blue; marc - red. the lil loops reflect events/complexities tough to capture; the zigzags represent 'well you people are all over the place'; the question marks are 'too little information but this was probably where valentino was at'; and the dashes similarly are... this range makes sense. science]

so as you can see, dani has the highest average. valentino knew him when he was still a teenager and got teenage dani drunk, which means dani gets an instant leg up by having an established dynamic pre-competition AND by not having quite the same idolisation weirdness going on with him as the other three. helps give them a more normal relationship... dani never seemed quite so weird about valentino. 2006 dani came in as the Next Big Thing and we have circumstantial evidence to suggest valentino did respond at least a little to that, but then in 2007 casey decided to be the Next Big Thing instead. this is extremely vibes-based - but in the latter bit of the og alien era you do feel like dani was Winning Here because valentino had a way more toxic relationship with the other two aliens and needed someone to reliably yap to, before ever so slightly doing less of that when the marc relationship was its best. afterwards it's a reversion to the mean - you still get an isolated bit of faff like the aragon 2017 overtake dispute, but broadly we're just in nebulously fond territory

casey, jorge and marc's rivalries with valentino really don't need to recapped again at this stage. the point is they obviously took them all quite firmly out of the nebulously fond territory at one point or another. between casey and jorge... idk I do feel like putting 'meh' over 'I hate you (fun)' is a bit kind to jorge for the 2008-9 period, where valentino's 'meh' towards jorge really was a proper meh. they weren't enemies, but valentino wasn't interested in engaging with jorge as a person At All in a way that was not true of casey. and even when casey existed in the 'I hate you (fun)' range, they were still pretty warm with each other in-person. I've had casey and jorge end up roughly in the same territory as dani - I think gun to his head, valentino would still prefer dani, but there is a certain 'gosh we sure did try to kill each other fifty times' fondness he shares with casey and jorge more than with anyone else. doesn't mean they're FRIENDS, none of these tiers are friends, but... nebulously fond

the main aberration is obviously jorge's starting point. again we only have gossip and jorge's impressions to go off, but jorge does seem to have been the only alien where valentino just... did not vibe with him from basically day zero. like, already didn't like him before jorge entered the premier class, quite probably before yamaha even chose him as valentino's prospective teammate. yes, the internal competition thing will have played into valentino's refusal to engage with jorge in any way whatsoever for as long as he possibly could, but... idk man, clearly there was something else going on there too. fundamentally there was nothing wrong with the interpersonal chemistry between valentino and any one of dani, casey or marc - it's just everything else that was a problem. jorge is in the weird position where every time they feuded, after maybe a year they recovered to a higher point than their previous baseline. in a way it brought them closer together. so maybe the basic interpersonal chemistry was SHIT but the situation was saved by several mutual murder attempts

anyway. idk. I find this really tough to disentangle from on-track rivalries because that was... the whole reason these people know each other. like,, sure, valentino may have picked up on some superficial resemblance between himself and marc that helped the, get on well at the start, but those similarities were also why that relationship was always going to get worse if they spent any length of time properly competing with each other. so very much a 'stuff that united them also divided them' situation, which ends up being kinda a net neutral as far as vibes are concerned. the similarities between casey and valentino were actively not a good thing for that relationship, since it's all stuff like 'unrivalled ability to hold grudges' and 'pettiness' and 'paranoia' and 'willingness to escalate' and 'dispositional nastiness'... so to the extent that they vibed with each other, it was in spite of all that stuff. those two had an occasionally bizarre mismatch between their rhetoric versus 'the evidence of my own eyes' that is pretty unique within the genre of valentino rivalries, but also is a result of the context in which that relationship existed. casey coming into that rivalry with a lot of baggage (some related to valentino) and valentino's penchant for mind games with his direct competitors made that relationship deeply messy. my guess is that valentino really did find jorge kinda annoying and grating, but also that can't be separated from how jorge was positioned from day one of their actual rival as both an external and an internal threat. and yeah, with dani, obviously it does HELP that both times they were in a title fight-adjacent situation, 2006 and 2008, there was always Another Guy valentino had reason to be more worried about

idk I feel like this is kind of an annoying answer... my personal bugbear is fans forgetting this is a Sport and these people are Competing for Titles, like I WANT that to be more important than how much they vibe personally lol. and luckily you'd have to say valentino agrees with me on this... fundamentally he was there to Win. which, good. from 'basic personality compatibility', jorge was in a worse situation than the other three imo - though you have to suspect that's partly because jorge was the one who was copying valentino most closely. idk if it's necessarily a PROPRIETARY thing like there's no reason to believe valentino had any issue with other riders doing celebrations, but... the whole effect. jorge establishing himself as A Character. the flamboyance situation in the yamaha garage. jorge being awkward and try-hard and arrogant in a way that isn't in truth a million miles away from valentino himself, but valentino finds grating from jorge specifically. that's just a guess! we have way more to go on for the jorge side of the equation, and first and foremost valentino was just 'withdrawn' towards jorge for much of their early partnership. not actively unpleasant. but yeah. my guess is jorge is the main outlier in the negative sense in that his relationship started out significantly worse than you'd expect from their competitive situation, whereas with the other three it's... about where you'd think early on. but, well. at least valentino and jorge eventually made it work. kind of

[saintaviator]

screenshot redraw from the secret saturdays :3

[ask-nikolaorsinov]

{{reread the strange music transcript and help. help. im so foolish. i thought nikolas been ringmaster a WHILE but the photo with nikolai denikin titles the ringmaster as gregor, and the photo was from 1948??? THATS SO RECENT {{ the wiki says the timeline for breekon & hope leaving is weird because they left After the gorilla skin was stolen which supposedly happened sometime After 2006 (when daniel was anglerfished) but they supposedly took over breekon & hope company after they left which they took the company in 1993.

{{ the timeline for nikola killing gregor and becoming ringmaster is then most likely somewhere between 1948-1993 Minimum. slightly insane to me what do u mean she hasnt even been ringmaster for a century. what do u mean its possible she hasnt even been ringmaster for 50 years. what. huh. i think she deserves the 50 year mark at least. im saying she struck sometime soon after that photo. maybe later the same year or even just 1949 or 1950 idk.

{{ nikolai denikin died in 2004 and had spent the prior two years being looked after by his granddaughter. so he left the circus in 2002 at Minimum. potentially either result of gorilla skin or if the skin was taken After his leave then it could be that he either made a personal decision OR he had some sort of issue with nikola becoming ringmaster (maybe fond of gregor or thought her unfit or just. generally something or another.

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in Déficit (2007, dir. Gael García Bernal)

(these gifs also feature Luz Cipriota and Camila Sodi)

Gifs are all 540px wide so you can click to see larger.

[other gael filmography gifsets]

[coeurdeverre82]

got a week off work hallelujah.. all i need to do is get my entire shit together & complete 1000 maintenance projects on my crumbling townhouse.. would rather just smoke weed & feel sorry for myself & make gifsets & abandon all pretensions to functionality..

[peak-dumbass]

The statements “Larry Butz is much more interesting and important than fans give him credit for, especially at the end of AA1 as Phoenix and Miles’ childhood best friend & with his witness testimony saving Miles from a guilty verdict as well as at the end of AA3 where he is shown genuinely trying to improve himself as a person as Laurice Deauxnim” and “Larry Butz is hard for most people to stand because of his consistent weird moments in AA3 which, along with his constant failing-to-get-with-woman jokes throughout both games, can get annoying and borderline intolerable for some people” are not mutually exclusive.

I really am interested in Larry as a character but god it’s impossible for me to see him as anything other than comedic-relief-that-isn’t-comedic-nor-relieving, I really don’t feel bad when Phoenix is slightly rude towards him cuz I would act the same, if not worse

[theaologies]

Since you've been going to it forever, what did you think of the new venue for Holmat?

Honestly I really liked it!! I know folks have been pretty negative about it but here’s my honest breakdown:

It felt like pre 2012 megacon. And I mean that in the best way possible.

The dealers room was huge and the artists alley was MASSIVE. I mean huge. With a fantastic selection of merch and goodies. I didn’t do many panels (they’re not really my thing) but the ones we did end up in were fun.

My only real complaint was the organization of where things were located because it was a HIKE to get from panel to panel. One can assume the OCCC doesn’t allow 18+ panels so those were all held in the Hyatt at night which meant going back and forth over the skybridge depending on where you wanted to be. The con center is pretty spread out in general meaning you always had to be walking to get from place to place. No big deal to me but I was in God’s worst shoes accidentally so my feet are a mess.

A lot of folks are bitching but like… what else did you want them to do? I’ve been going to HolMat since it’s literal first year when it was at the double tree across from Universal. Yeah the Marriott world is fancy but holy shit, everything else about it was a NIGHTMARE. Hotels, parking, transportation, overcrowding- HolMat is a nationally popular con, it has been for years, and it should’ve moved to the OCCC years ago.

It never felt crowded (besides between some of the AA booths, which could’ve been spread out more) in a way that I felt like I was going to fucking die BUT there were still PLENTY of people. Merch and AA selections were great, again, which is huge for me because even at NYCC I barely found ANYTHING I wanted.

It being in the West Concourse brought up SO many memories of old Megacon before it became unfathomably crowded and popular. I absolutely believe the people bitching are just mad about not having their fancy pool cosplays anymore. Could it be a little more decorated? Yeah I think. Panel locations better organized? Absolutely. Staff less power tripping and better trained? You bet. But the space was PERFECT for the number of people. Plus even not staying in the host hotels, there are so many within SUPER easy walking distance which made parking way less of an issue.

Genuinely I don’t know what folks who’re mad wanted. It has outgrown all the reasonable hotels in Orlando besides MAYBE (MAYBE- I don’t know all the deets on their convention space) the Gaylord but because ICE! Is there during December it could never happen.

Anyway, had a genuinely great time. 8/10, better space organization and move it to early December again please